Real Estate News

The husband of one of China's richest and most powerful businesswomen has joined the board of her family's flagship company. Country Garden Holdings, one of China's largest real estate developers, said on Thursday Chen Chong had joined its board as a ...(Dec 8, 2016, Forbes)

REITs (excluding Mortgage) and Real Estate Management have a bad P/S, but are close to fair price for other valuation factors. They are also above their baseline in quality. Other groups are less attractive. The most overpriced is Diversified Financial ...(Dec 8, 2016, Seeking Alpha)

It was the biggest year-over-year home sales gain for the area in almost five years. "The November numbers just rocked," said Dr. James Gaines, chief economist for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. "We've been tracking it on a daily basis ...(Dec 8, 2016, Dallas News)

“Ownership of real estate for centuries has been tracked at the local level, and real estate transfers are some of the most complicated and antiquated of any asset type out there,” said Ira Schaefer of Hogan Lovells. “The good news: Real estate is a ...(Dec 8, 2016, PYMNTS.com)

Given such obstacles, and that architecture apprentices often mimicked their mentors' designs, some real estate agents opt to safely say a home was created “in the style of” a name architect. Even when a home has been definitively tied to a well-known ...(Dec 8, 2016, Los Angeles Times)

Black Creek Group LLC, a private-equity firm that focuses on real estate, said it hired former Morgan Stanley executive Raj Dhanda as president of its U.S. business. Mr. Dhanda, 48 years old, spent 26 years at Morgan Stanley, holding key jobs at both ...(Dec 8, 2016, Wall Street Journal)

Wealthy Russians are looking to spend big on U.S. real estate in the wake of Donald Trump's election victory. The number of Russians who have expressed interest in buying luxury properties in the U.S. has spiked by 35% over the previous year following ...(Dec 8, 2016, CNNMoney)

The White House has been home to lawyers, generals, professors and career politicians, but never a real estate sharpie like Donald Trump. For more than five decades, intellectuals like Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. have been warning us about the perils of ...(Dec 7, 2016, POLITICO Magazine)

As for the current generation of erected structures, today's investors in commercial real estate (CRE) can be forgiven if they've got the urge of late to go soft on the sector. Fine, so the current CRE cycle is long in the tooth. The same could be said ...(Dec 7, 2016, Nasdaq)

Buoyed by the Federal Reserve's lower for longer stance on interest rates and investors' seemingly unquenchable desire for income, real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the corresponding exchange traded funds were among the most popular ...(Dec 7, 2016, Fox Business)

There hasn't been much good news for Houston's real estate sector in recent months, with the oil-fueled building wave crashing onto the rocks of a price collapse. Office vacancy rates now stand at 17.1 percent, according to the most recent report from ...(Dec 7, 2016, Houston Chronicle)